“It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case. It’s rare that you get one artifact that really becomes the symbol,” Lonnie Bunch told the Washington Post. “Because it’s such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama.”

Martin, 17, was wearing the gray pullover last year when he was fatally shot by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla.

The garment became a sign of solidarity with the slain teen: Hoodies were worn at rallies, church services and by senators and celebrities.

Other items from famous criminal cases have ended up on display. The Newseum in Washington, D.C, has Ted Kaczinski's cabin and the ill-fitting gloves from O.J. Simpson’s trial were part of an exhibit at the Palms Resort in Las Vegas.

Bunch has assembled a collection of court artifacts for the African American History museum, which is expected to open in 2015, including the handcuffs used to restrain Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the guard tower from Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary.

A long-planned (and long-stalled) effort to build a national museum honoring the history of Latinos in the United States got a push on Capitol Hill from an advocacy group that is urging lawmakers to pass a bill that would put the project into motion.

The last 11 months have been difficult for Anthony and Eldrie Scott, with every holiday or milestone bringing another reminder. They had lost their only child, something they pray no other parent has to experience.